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JugglingReferee Sun Jul 15, 2001 06:15am

I did an "employees tournament" held at the local Toyota plant. Typical scenario with odd rules to accomodate their schedule... Team A is up by 4 with 1 minute to go, and on a break away. Team B player, close by, catches up, and bear hugs with one arm and uses the other to reach around Team A player to swat the ball away. (B player was quite a bit larger than A, so A was slowed up rather quickly.)

Easy call, it's an INT.

B goes nuts, saying "I was playing the ball." I said to him, "What you did is an exact definition of an INT foul." His response: "If it were INT, he'd be on the floor."

I said, "Oh, ok, well we have a different foul for that."

..Mike

co2ice Sun Jul 15, 2001 11:15am

Yea we do!!! We call it flagrant, and then ask you to leave. If this group is anything like our "industrial" leagues around hear then that statement is par for the course. BTW great call!!

BktBallRef Sun Jul 15, 2001 12:39pm

"Oh what a feeling!" :D

Mark Padgett Sun Jul 15, 2001 02:12pm

however......
 
......if the swat came before the bear hug, it's not intentional.


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